Chuck Chuck Baby (2023) Movie Script
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(birds chirping)
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(dog distantly barking)
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(wind softly howls)
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Love is the key you must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom, the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
(television faintly chattering)
(gentle music)
(door clicks)
- What are you doing in here?
(baby coos)
- What are you doing that for?
I've seen it all before, you
know. You were my bloody wife.
- Can you ask your girlfriend
to turn the telly down?
It's not good for your mum.
(baby cries)
(television faintly chattering)
(bag rustles)
(television faintly chattering)
(case clicks)
(television faintly chattering)
- Should I get my lips done like her?
Plump, like juicy lips.
Oh, that's him, Gary.
- [Gary] He's a prick.
- Yeah, but he's a funny prick.
- [Gary] And you like funny pricks?
- [Amy] Yes. Why wouldn't you?
- [Gary] Ah, shit.
Would you like to be on this?
- [Amy] Eh, yeah?
It'd be a holiday, innit?
- [Gary] Yeah, but you'd have to cop off
with all those lads.
- Nah. You pretend.
It's a free holiday.
- [Gary] You'd be great in it.
- Get the money, Helen.
- [Gary] Here we go.
(Gwen coughs)
- I bet that one wouldn't wipe me arse.
- Would you want her to wipe your arse?
- No. I bloody wouldn't.
Probably can't even wipe her own.
Oh.
(Gwen coughs)
So, what did you wish for?
- The usual.
- You shouldn't stay
here just because of me.
(Gwen sighs)
(television chattering)
That's nice. You're good at this.
- When I was at the home,
I had a Girl's World doll.
- Oh, I bet she didn't
have collapsing lungs,
gray hair, and no teeth.
- She was the only thing
I loved to play with.
- I loved to play with
mine, once upon a time.
- I used to snog her.
- Oh, Christ.
(Gwen chuckles)
(Gwen coughs)
Who did you use to think about?
(Gwen coughs)
- I'd have to kill you if I told you.
- Sometimes, I wish you would kill me.
- I'd end up in prison.
- Yeah, well, we're both
already in one, love.
(wind howls)
(beach-goers laughing)
(gulls cawing)
(beach-goers indistinctly chattering)
- All you've done is moan
since we've got here!
You've got your face in that phone!
You think you're pissin' funny, you do.
Get in the fucking car!
- [Teenager] I'm going!
- What are you gawking at? Stupid cow.
(beach-goers chattering)
(gentle music)
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LA's fine, the sun
shines most of the time
- I've never been there, and
I probably won't ever go.
The feeling is laid back
Palm trees grow and rents are low
But, you know, I keep thinking about
Making my way back
Well, I'm a Catholic girl
I'm New York City
born and raised
But, nowadays, I'm
lost between two shores
LA's fine
But it ain't home
New York's home
But it ain't mine no more
"I am," I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am," I cried
"I am," said I
And I am lost and I can't even say why
Leaving me lonely still
(gentle music continues)
(Helen sniffles)
Did you ever read about a frog
Who dreamed of being a king
And then became one
Well, except for the names
And a few other changes
If you talk about him
If you talk about me
The story's the same one
But I got an emptiness deep inside
And I've tried
But it won't let me go
And I'm not a man
And I'm not a woman
Who likes to swear
But I never cared for
the sound of being alone
"I am," I said
(car horns honking)
To no one there
(car horns honking)
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am," I cried
(coworkers chuckles)
"I am," said I
(coworkers chuckles)
And I am lost and I can't even say why
(coworkers chuckles)
"I am," I said
- [Coworker] Are you slacking?
"I am," I cried
I am
(door slams)
(factory machinery whirring)
(workers chattering)
(factory machinery continues whirring)
- I hate the night shift.
- Come on, Clare.
Eyes down on the line. Four
nights down, one to go!
(workers cheer)
- Hey.
(coworker chuckles)
- Jesus. Watch it.
(alarm blares)
- Yes!
Come on.
- Hats on!
2617, do not touch that bloody button!
- I've got a name!
(workers chattering)
- Go get us a drink, Paula.
- Why can't you go?
- 'Cause I've slept with
everyone standing there
and it's embarrassing.
(Paula laughs)
(phone rings)
- What's wrong?
I don't know, Gary.
Give him Calpol or something.
What? Have you checked his nappy?
Uh.
Did you give your mum a drink?
Look, I've gotta go.
- Here, your majesty.
- Did you know Joanne
Jones was coming back?
- [Clare] Her dad died.
- Why is she coming
back? She hated her dad.
Evil bastard.
- Nothing more pleasing
than ranting at a corpse.
I did it with me mum's. She was a cunt.
- Well, there's no corpse
for her to rant at.
He's already been buried.
- See you back inside.
- See you.
Hey, which one was your favorite?
- Oh, fuck off.
(Paula laughs)
(birds chirping)
(car door slams)
- Oh, hello.
- Oh, hello.
(birds continue chirping)
Fucking hell.
(door slams)
(Joanne deeply sighing)
(Joanne deeply breathing)
(record clacks)
(record whirring)
(gentle music)
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I'm leaving by night
I'm leaving alone
I'm leaving you lie
When you waken, I'll be gone
I would not beg for me
As I would not beg for you
Though I'd like to be the
one to see you through
Every step you have taken
Disappears with the tide
You're torn up and shaken
With changing your mind
You haven't got the grace
To say you'll finally decide
And you haven't got the
strength to stay to fight
Those people who surround you
Only want to see you
weak enough to crawl
They'll lie for you, decide for you
And buy up all your
rights and all your wrongs
And they'll try to stop your singing
In the middle of your song
For they do not want you free
They will not make you strong
But only drag you down
In the hole they're coming from
They say you are foolish
for wanting the sun
They say you are selfish
for learning to run
They'll tell you that the darkness
Is a blessing in disguise
For you never have to notice
If you're sighted or you're blind
And they'll do their best
to keep you from the light
(uplifting music)
(Joanne gasping)
You're more than beginning
You're learning to fly
It feels like you're falling
But it passes in time
I hate to see a friend go
down in flames without a song
So I'm waiting by the doorway
But I will not linger long
I'm leaving by night
I'm leaving alone
I'm leaving you lie
When you waken, I'll be gone
I would not beg for me
As I could not beg for you
But I'd like to be the
one to see you through
(uplifting music continues)
(uplifting music continues)
(Joanne sighs)
(Gwen sighs)
(television distantly chattering)
(Gwen groans)
(Gwen sighs)
- I should take you to hospital.
- I'm not having strangers
feeding off my grand finale.
I've waited long enough for it,
so I'm not sharing it
with anyone except you.
(television distantly chattering)
- How are you not afraid of dying?
- You shouldn't be afraid of living.
Women like us, we're just a number.
We live by the clock,
spend every day serving
someone or something.
Tick, tock.
Tick, tock.
Before you know it, the lid's being shut.
What's biting your arse, love?
- Someone I used to know,
except I didn't know them
'cause I never spoke to them.
I'm embarrassed if I see
her, about me, my life.
- Hey. Hey.
- Hiya. Oh, me?
- I work at the chicken.
No, I don't have kids.
No, but me husband, he's had
a baby with someone else.
- And that's not your bloody fault,
so don't you ever go
blaming yourself for that.
- Anyway.
(Helen sighs)
- Last shift before the weekend, huh?
- Yep.
(TV chattering)
(machinery whirring)
(worker yawns)
- Hell hath no fury like a woman's-
- Flange.
I write sayings when
someone wants to fight me.
- How old are you?
- I practice in the mirror.
I've got enough fury in my
flange to cause an earthquake,
so don't fucking push it, love.
(alarm blares)
Ooh, yeah!
If you're not scared of me,
why are you shaking like a shitting dog?
(workers indistinctly
chattering over each other)
(Helen sighs)
- God, come here.
- Come here.
- Come here!
Look at you!
- Good to see you.
- It's good to see you!
- Come here!
(group laughs)
- [Paula] Oh my God!
- Let go! I can't breathe!
(group laughing)
- [Paula] Don't squash Joanne!
- You remember Helen
from the home, Joanne.
She was at school with us.
- Vaguely.
- [Paula] Listen to you.
You sound dead posh.
- Oh, shush.
- You do!
- Look at your car!
- Don't you touch my car.
- Oh, come on! You
should put me on the car!
Oh! Oh!
- [Clare] Oh my God!
Paula, stop it!
- Stop playing around!
- Do not get in. Don't
even think about it.
- Oh, I'm getting in. I'm getting in.
- [Joanne] No, you're not getting in.
Well, you're not having the keys.
(group shouting over each other)
- Shotgun!
- Nobody is getting in my car!
I've got the keys!
(group chuckles)
(Helen sniffles)
(Helen sighs)
(knocking on window)
(Helen gasps)
- Where did you scamper her off to?
What the hell's up with you?
- Do you remember me at school?
- Hey?
Christ, Helen.
I'm not being funny but I
was hardly fucking there.
Why don't you come out tonight?
We're all meeting up with Joanne.
- Yeah, all right. Thanks.
- Well, more for you.
We'll be at the Gasworks from seven!
It's that time of the month!
Payday, you knob head!
(TV chattering)
(dance music playing)
- I've been thinking.
(Amy laughs)
If I got rid of her,
then you and I take on
baby Jacob-Rees, yeah?
- What are you on about?
- You should be grateful you
got a home to go, you know?
A roof over your head.
If you're not happy with it,
then, you know, do something about it.
Find someone else.
- And how am I supposed to do that
when you're taking half my wages?
- Well, I can't work and
look after Mum, can I?
(paper rustles)
(Gwen coughs)
(sheet rustles)
(birds chirping)
(Joanne sighs)
(Gwen sighs)
- How's your friend?
- It's been 20 odd years.
I barely remember myself
from 20 odd years ago.
They're all off out tonight.
- Helen,
you get out there.
Make her remember you.
Tick, tock, love.
(crowd chattering)
- Come here!
(group laughs)
Jesus!
- Open your mouth and I'll move, love.
- Hey, swallow your cheek,
or I'll shove it down
your throat for you, love.
Hey! Shots, shots, shots,
shots, shots, shots, shots!
- To the woman with a girl in every port!
(group cheers)
- Ugh.
- Oh, God.
- I'd have a finger
party with you anytime.
- Oh, Paula.
How long you here, Joanne?
- The council's giving
me a couple of weeks
to clear the house.
- A lifetime of living
and you get a few weeks.
That's how they treat us humans.
- Oh, I wouldn't call you human, Paula.
(group chuckles)
- I can't believe you lot are still here.
- Oh, me kids' dads
are here, so I'm stuck.
- I got away. I only came
back 'cause me dad was ill.
- You only went to Liverpool.
You can bloody walk there for me.
- Chris, I've just realized
you two will be close.
Have you seen anyone?
- No, apart from that knob
Gary who still lives next door.
What woman married that prick?
(group snickers)
- [Clare] Oh, geez.
(thunder rumbles)
- [Joanne] Is there a
problem? What's wrong?
(rain pattering)
(gentle music)
- Helen, come on!
Listen to the rhythm
of the falling rain
(group laughing)
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go
and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
The only girl I care
about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know
That when she left that day
Along with her, she took my heart
(group laughing)
(gentle music continues)
Rain, won't you tell
her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to
set her heart aglow
Rain in her heart and let the
love we knew start to grow
Listen to the rhythm
of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go
and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
Oh, listen to the falling rain
Pitter patter, pitter patter
Oh, oh, oh
(traffic distantly rumbling)
- Would you like a chip?
I was embarrassed.
I didn't want him to know that
I stalked you as a teenager.
- Do they come with curry or gravy?
- Half and half, 'cause
I can never decide.
- So where are you living now?
- Next door to you and that Gary.
- I haven't been with him for years.
(motorcycle buzzes)
- What's with all these fences?
It's funny.
- What is?
- This is the first
time we've ever talked.
Enjoy your chips.
(keys jingle)
(lock clicks)
(dance music loudly thumping)
(door slams)
(traffic rumbling)
(birds chirping)
(knocking on door)
- Well, look at you.
- Hello, Gwen.
- [Gwen] Here.
- As promised, with 20 years' interest.
Gwen gave me the fare to
follow the yellow brick road.
- She's a friend of Dorothy.
- She knows.
- Dorothy?
- Oh, she's not as green
as she's cabbage-looking.
She used to snog a Girl's World doll.
- Gwen! Oh my God!
I'll leave you two to it.
(door clicks)
- So you're back.
You've been hiding away too long.
You're back to make sure he's gone?
- In a way.
- He had a horrible death.
Taking your last gasp, knowing
you're unloved and unliked.
What could be more horrible than that?
Are you all right in that house?
- He was never the house.
- No.
Not the house.
(machinery whirring)
- Fred the Flaker!
- Allen the Allotment!
- Beryl the Bar!
- [Coworkers] Stop!
- Who said Beryl the Bar already?
- Helen the Handmaid.
- People call me Helen the Handmaid?
- Go sort her out.
(workers chattering)
What is wrong with you?
(Helen sniffles)
(door squeaks)
- It's just a name.
- Does everyone know?
- No! Of course they don't.
- I thought I was Helen the Home.
Helen the Handmaid?
It's embarrassing.
- Not as embarrassing as Paula the Blower.
(Helen chuckles)
(toilet whooshes)
(Lynn laughs)
Wash your hands, Debs!
(Debs chuckles)
(gulls squawking)
- [Joanne] These were a lot
easier when I was young.
- Excuse me!
Snooping is against the law.
Weirdo.
- I've got something for you! Shit!
(stilts clatter)
- You okay?
- [Joanne] Yeah.
(chair creaks)
(birds chirping)
Here.
- Thanks.
So this is where you grew up?
- Homes are like people. Some are lovely.
Some are ugly. Some are just cruel.
What?
- You talk like, I don't know, a poem.
It's nice.
- You like?
- I always wanted one of those.
- So what was it like
growing up with nuns?
- You got a thing for nuns?
- No.
- Slow, cold, orderly.
Lots of Latin. That came in
useful at the chicken factory.
I don't know.
I spent most of my time
looking out the window.
I wasn't always there.
My nana brought me up
and then she died, so.
- Yeah, but were they nice to you?
- Sometimes.
But you do have a thing for nun?
- No, I don't.
(birds continue chirping)
Come here.
Sit.
Close your eyes. Keep 'em closed.
Closed.
(box thumps)
(Helen gasps)
(Joanne chuckles)
This girl was my best friend.
You wanna play?
Don't be silly. We're grown women.
(Joanne giggle)
- Gary!
Gary!
Gary!
- [Gary] What?
- Have you taken my make-up bag?
- You being fucking funny?
- Well, it kinda just
vaporized into thin air?
Ugh.
It was just here!
(Joanne and Helen chuckle)
What the shitting hell?
Gary!
(Joanne snickers)
Gary!
She's pure (indistinct).
- [Gary] What? I'm watching the telly!
(Joanne and Helen chuckle)
(machinery whirring)
- A brain game.
- I Spy.
- Bored.
- Bingo?
- How do you play bingo with no hands?
- Disabled people play bingo, Lynn.
- Memory games are good
for stimulating the brain.
- Okay. Memory games.
Helen, first man you had sex with.
- No.
- First man you thought
of having sex with.
- Leave her alone, Paula.
- Actually, Paula, it wasn't a man.
(Clare chuckles)
- What does she mean by that?
(alarm blaring)
- Helen!
- I'm melting! I'm fucking melting!
(group chuckles)
- Interesting. We were
just having a memory game.
- A trip down memory lane.
- Hmm. A trip?
(Clare chuckles)
- No way.
- Hey.
A long trip?
- A long, long trip.
- I'm up for it.
- You need a new line, Paula.
- It can't be long. I need to see to Gwen.
- Oh, live a little.
- [Lynn] Let me press it!
- [Clare] No!
- [Lynn] Oh, just let me press it!
- [Clare] No!
- [Lynn] Please let me press it, Clare!
Come on!
(upbeat music)
Let me have the boom!
- [Clare] Yeah!
Come on!
- Woo!
(group cheers)
- Be careful with that.
- We're not walking, are we?
- [Clare] Come on!
- I hate walking!
- Come here.
- Come on, Paula!
Here we go!
Destination outward bound
I turn to see the northern
lights behind the wing
- [Lynn] Woo!
Horizons seem to beckon me
Learned how to cry too
young, so now I live to sing
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
Horizons seem to beckon me
Learned how to cry too
young, so now I live to sing
- Rolling!
- Bloody hell, run!
(traffic honking)
(group cheers)
Past or future, here or there
Shelter comes in words
from you, so talk to me
(group laughs)
I hear your voice, it comforts me
In morning dreams, I take your hand
You walk with me
(group cheers)
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
Peace enfolds the still night air
Home again, I look for
you and find you there
Marking the space between the days
Early hours pass away
I sing to you of northern lights
I sing for you of northern nights
- I'm trying to hang me washing, love.
- Woo!
- Let's go!
(upbeat music continues)
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
The northern nights are in my eyes
They guide me back to you
- Oh, fuck me. That's
bigger than what I remember.
- You lying girl.
- Five women want to get to
the top. How hard can it be?
(upbeat music continues)
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
The northern lights are in my eyes
They guide me back to you
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
- I'm shaking.
- Don't worry. She's an expert.
The northern lights are in my mind
(birds chirping)
- These are gentle.
(Paula chuckles)
- Ooh.
- So what happens now?
(group snickers)
(Paula indistinctly mumbles)
(Paula coughs)
(group laughs)
- [Lynn] Oh, don't. She'll
have an asthma attack.
(group laughing)
- I've got three kids
with three different dads.
(laughter drowns out speaker)
(group laughing)
- I had, I...
(Lynn laughs)
I had mine when I was 17
and she's me best mate.
I am that woman.
(Lynn laughing)
what are you doing?
- I'm seeing chicken clouds.
(group laughs)
Stop! I'm gonna piss!
Stop!
(group laughs)
- I could live here
in a giant mushroom with net curtains.
(group laughs)
- If there's anyone up there,
can you get Helen the Home a busting home?
(group laughing)
I wonder what Google Earth is seeing.
(group laughs)
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
- Christ! I've got nothing in for tea!
(group laughs)
- A penny for them?
- Um.
Wash bedding, wash work
clothes, hang work clothes,
press repeat.
- You like her.
Well, you're not thinking of a man
when you snog your doll, now are you?
- She's a friend.
(Gwen chuckles)
- I wish I had a friend that
made my men sing like that.
(Gwen laughs)
(door clicks)
- Everything all right?
- Well, I'm dying.
- Is that supposed to be funny?
- I'm going to have a fanny scrub-down.
Do you want to watch?
- Hm. I'll shut the door then.
(door slams)
(Gwen sighs)
- Now, I'm just saying this.
If you are thinking about it,
don't let mine put you off.
(birds chirping)
- Are you snooping on me?
- [Joanne] Yeah.
(Helen chuckles)
- And there's like these like...
(car engine roaring drowns out speaker)
And then, like, as I get better,
I can do, like, semi-perms and that.
- Yeah, semi-perms.
- Are you coming or what?
Are you just gonna go off
in the street then, yeah?
So long.
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
- [Joanne] Why are you still here?
- [Helen] Where else would I have gone?
- Oh.
Oh, anywhere
- Gwen, when the home closed
down, took me in as a lodger
and I love her for it, so here I am.
- So that's when you met Gary?
- I was young.
- [Joanne] How young?
- 16.
- Oh, God.
You used to sit here for hours.
What were you dreaming about?
Well, I used to dream
of playing the piano.
I went to music class at school.
I watched this girl play and
she was pretty and confident,
so I asked the music teacher
if I could join the class.
Yeah.
He took ahold of my hands, looked at them,
and in front of everyone,
he told me that they were
too dirty to touch his piano,
so I hit him and smashed up
his music room and his piano.
- That was the last time I saw you,
you being dragged down the
corridor by the police.
- Yeah, and you smiled at me.
- I did.
I wish I'd said something.
- You did.
- Are they clean now?
You work on the pylons?
(Joanne chuckles)
- Uh, yeah, I do. I
check that they're safe.
Yeah, I like it. I get
to move around a lot.
- A girl in every port.
- Yeah. That's not what it sounds like.
- [Helen] What does it sound like?
- I'm just not a great believer in love.
- You must have believed
in it once upon a time.
(machinery whirring)
- What is it?
- I want to look nice.
Not nice. Different.
- Get your lips pulled.
- But you can't do that
'cause that's not different.
She wants different!
- All right. I'm only standing here.
(Clare whistles)
(Clare whistles)
(coworkers chattering)
- [Clare] You still cutting hair?
- You carry scissors?
- I'm Polish. I have to
be careful since Brexit.
Toilets in five.
- She wants Paris, not Poznan!
(Paula chuckles)
- Where's that?
- Have you ever been anywhere
apart from here and Liverpool?
- Glan Clwyd.
- That's a hospital. Poznan, Poland.
My new fella's from there.
(Paula grunts)
(Clare chuckles)
(Paula indistinctly murmurs)
- Stop it!
(workers indistinctly murmuring)
(stall door slams)
- Look straight on.
(scissors clacking)
(toilet whooshes)
(machinery whirring)
(coworkers indistinctly murmuring)
- I know who Helen thought
about having sex with.
I could do all the other
stuff, but I couldn't eat one.
Oh. Ugh.
- Paula!
- [Vocalist] I want a flower.
Not the flower you're thinking
of, but a good flower anyway.
- It's not like Helen
is overtly, you know.
She's a bit prude-y.
(gentle music)
Will somebody wear me to the fair
- I'm just saying, if she wants
it, she'll have to eat it.
Will a lady pin me in her hair
- I couldn't, and I can eat most things.
Will a child find me by a stream
Gaily laughing in the sunbeam shower
Kiss my petals, weave
me through a dream
For all of these simple
things and much more
A flower was born
It blooms to spread love and joy
Faith and hope to people forlorn
Inside every woman
Inside every man
Lives the seed of a flower
If she looks within
If he looks within
She finds beauty and power
He finds beauty and power
(Helen sighs)
(singer vocalizes)
(crowd cheers)
Ring all the bells, sing and
tell the people everywhere
That the flower has come
Light up the sky with your
prayers of gladness and rejoice
For the darkness is gone
Throw off your fears, let
your heart beat freely
At the sign that a new time is born
(crowd chattering)
(crowd cheers)
May mosaydee kaylie lowya roses
May mosaydee kaylie lowya roses
Say money ain't na, na, no, oh, na
(singer hums)
Looking for vayda tay breeze
Looking for vayda tay breeze
May mosaydee kaylie lowya roses
(singer hums)
For all of these simple
things and much more
A flower was born
- Stop it.
It blooms to spread love and joy
Faith and hope to people forlorn
Inside every man
Inside every woman
Lives the seed of a flower
If he looks within
If she looks within
He finds beauty and power
She finds beauty and power
- Eat me, Paula.
(crowd cheers)
- [Paula] Piss off!
- Eat me!
(dramatic music)
(crowd cheers)
Na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
- What the blinkin' hell are you lot
pissing about with these for?
People have gotta eat them, you know!
Get them all picked up and stop it!
(crowd laughing)
- No.
(weights clanging)
(trunk thumps)
- Gary.
You won't intimidate me
by standing in your garden
like a scarecrow on steroids.
- I'm a fucking time bomb, me!
A fucking time bomb!
(dog distantly barking)
(Gary grunting)
(birds chirping)
- Did you ever give her a name?
- No. She remains unnamed and free.
(birds continue chirping)
I don't believe in wishes.
- Taraxacum.
Their name in Latin.
- What does it mean?
- A remedy for disorder.
What is the remedy for disorder?
- Love.
- You're beautiful.
- I'm not.
- You are.
- You don't know me.
- Yes, I do.
- I'm terrified all the
time about everything.
- I know how it feels to be terrified.
(birds continue chirping)
(Joanne chuckles)
Really?
(Helen chuckling)
(baby coos)
- [Helen] Woo!
(Helen chuckling)
- Well, if we got
together when we were 15,
I think we could have made it.
- I would've wooed you.
- I would've wooed you back with a song.
- A song?
- Yeah. Yeah, I would've.
I would've played you a song
and we would've lived happily ever after.
- You don't do happy ever after.
I want you to woo me.
(Joanne chuckles)
What? You're a wooer, aren't you?
Do you want your teeth out?
- Leave them in.
Oh, it's nice.
- What is?
- The hair,
and hearing you having fun.
- Thank you
for being the mum I never had.
- Ah, no.
- I mean it.
I don't know what I'd
have done without you.
(Gwen sighs)
- Now, would you bugger off?
(footsteps thump)
(Gwen sighs)
(door slams)
(television indistinctly chattering)
- She's a fucking lesbian, her next door.
- No fucking way.
Why don't you cover his ears
so he doesn't hear all the
ignorant shit you two spew out?
- Well, actually, Helen,
being parents gives us
a natural in-stuition.
- [Helen] That's not even a word, Amy.
- Yeah, it fucking is!
It is a word, Gary.
- I know, babe. I know.
(door creaks)
(door slams)
(workers indistinctly murmuring)
(Clare sighs)
(Paula grunts)
- [Lynn] Paula!
(Paula giggles)
(Lynn softly chuckles)
- What is going on with those two?
- Oh.
(Paula snickers)
(car rumbles)
(wind whooshing)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gulls squawking)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(Helen chuckles)
(birds chirping)
- Still.
- [Helen] What?
- You.
(Helen laughs)
(Joanne chuckles)
(Joanne puffs)
Can I ask you a question?
- Yeah?
- Why no children?
- I couldn't carry past 12 weeks.
I tried four times and
then I stopped trying.
- How did Captain Caveman
let you get away with that?
- He didn't. He banished
me to the baby room.
(Helen gasps)
Move your foot, madame.
(Helen sighs)
- I wrote you a love letter once.
- Mhm?
- I spent ages on it.
Drawing hearts and flowers
and writing little poems.
Then he found it and he read it.
Tore it into tiny pieces.
Told me how disgusting I was.
All I could think about was
how I was gonna put the
letter back together.
(Helen gasps)
(Helen yelps)
(Helen chuckles)
The things I do to woo a woman.
(Helen chuckles)
- [Gwen] Have you done it?
- What?
- [Gwen] Go on.
- After all these years and
everything that's happened,
she's always sat in here
and I don't know why.
- Oh, yes, you do.
I think you do.
(machinery whirring)
- What is love?
- Korma curry, fried rice,
and a cuddle with me kids on the sofa
while watching shit telly.
- Real love is someone
who will, you know, do it
even if you haven't had a bath.
- [Clara] What are you on about?
- [Lynn] Cuddling.
- It's the moment the air feels different.
You can breathe.
You feel bigger than anyone or anything,
and you can take down
anything that gets in the way,
'cause you're one big
mass of fucking emotion.
(chicken splats)
Ugh.
- The beautiful Helen Davis,
you are requested to meet Joanne Jones
at the top of Lovers'
Lane at 11 this morning
so we can play.
(crowd cheers and whistles)
I can't believe I just
soddin' read that out.
(group laughs)
(Helen and Joanne giggling)
- Ready?
- Mhm.
(Helen gasps)
(wind howling)
(Helen and Joanne chuckle)
- Take the reins. Chuck chuck, baby.
(Helen sighs)
(Helen and Joanne laughing)
(cart clatters)
(Joanne cheers)
(birds chirping)
(Joanne cheers)
(tender music)
(tender music continues)
Walk in love
A sandy beach
We're barefoot
We walk in love
A time and place so sacred
Only lovers see
The magic we can be
- Why am I so nervous?
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
(Joanne chuckles)
Talking hands
We walk in silence
But we have talking hands
They speak of feelings
Like our words could never do
My love, I shine for you
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
Laugh to laugh
We take our clothes off
Moonlit to love
To love, to love, to love
We spread the blanket
Lie down, rising with the waves
And falling like a star
(Helen giggles)
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
(workers chattering)
(machinery whirring)
(birds chirping)
(Helen giggles)
- Don't bother.
I have the face of death on me.
(bed squeaks)
And you,
you have the face of birth.
Don't you bloody dare.
Now, you know where me papers are.
There's an envelope with your name on it.
It's me bingo cards.
Oh, I'll still be playing
from the other side.
(Gwen coughs)
I've paid for a fast-track cremation.
I don't want to be pissing around
in some cold cubbyhole for two weeks.
(Gwen coughs)
- I don't want you to go.
(Helen sniffles)
- Do you remember the first
time you knocked at my door?
- Yeah.
- It took you 15 minutes
to find the courage,
but you knocked.
- I wish-
- No "I wish."
I wish.
Helen, stop wishing.
Tick, tock.
You're gonna be all right,
and me,
I'll be glad to see the back of myself.
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
- Can I please?
- Yeah. Take it.
- You know, first,
charity starts at home.
- Then what's your own?
- Ah. You know what I mean, love.
- Yeah. I'm not your love.
- You always were a mouthy little cow.
He should have kept you locked up.
(Gary snickers)
- What did you say?
- You heard me.
- What did you fucking say?
- [Neighbor] Mad bitch!
- Hey, hey.
I can still see you lying on
the floor, covered in piss.
(Gary laughs)
It cost me two cans of lager, that did.
Yeah, your dad would
do anything for a beer.
(Gary chuckles)
What was it he used to say about you?
It was worthless from birth.
Then your mum fucked off.
That's gotta be something, isn't it?
Yeah.
I wasn't the only one.
Nah, loads of us used
to go and look at you.
You were good entertainment.
- You are a prick.
- Now, look around you.
Well, look around.
Do you know what they're all thinking?
Shall I tell you?
We have fences to keep filth like you out.
You are dirty and you are fucking filth.
Yeah, that's better. Yeah.
Can't escape from what you
are around here. No way.
Go ahead and pack a bag, you know?
Nobody wants you!
(Joanne panting)
(dog distantly barking)
You're bring down the frickin' tone.
(Gary laughs)
(Joanne shouts)
- [Joanne] Fuck!
(juice splats)
(group laughs)
- Just a bit.
- Helen, you gotta get
yourself home, love.
Come on. Get yourself off home.
(machinery whirring)
- Gwen has passed to the other side,
though she still remains upstairs in body.
(door slams)
(bed softly creaks)
- Why didn't you wait for me?
(bed softly creaks)
- Can you wake her up please, Helen?
Wake her up.
(gentle music)
(bed rattles)
Mum?
(bed rattles)
Mum?
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(Helen sighs)
(birds chirping)
- See you in a minute.
(knocking on door)
(door creaks)
- [Paula] Just us.
(birds faintly chirping)
- You okay?
She's devastated.
Have you even seen her?
(clothes rustle)
You know, I wondered why you came back,
and I thought something
in your voice had changed
when I told you I worked with her.
(gentle music)
- I can't.
I can't do it,
in here.
- It's no life, Joanne, the way you live.
You're breaking your own bloody heart.
(Joanne scoffs)
(gentle music continues)
(Joanne sighs)
Come on.
Come.
(Joanne sighs)
(television indistinctly chattering)
- You should have been here,
not running around with her.
(spoon clatters)
(television continues chattering)
I saw her packing her car today.
Are you gonna go with her?
She asked you to.
(Helen sighs)
Well, my mum's dead now so you can go.
(birds chirping)
(footsteps thumps)
(dog distantly barks)
- I'm sorry about Gwen.
- Were you thinking of telling me
or were you just gonna leave?
- What do you want, Helen?
- I want you.
- Well, I have to go.
- [Helen] What?
(zipper rustles)
I can't breathe here.
- I don't understand.
Has something happened?
- Has something happened?
This has happened and this has happened!
This whole fucking place!
Look at the two of us.
We're fucked up. It's too late.
It's too late.
- Why are you saying that?
- Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot
you believe in things.
I'm a fuck-up, Helen.
I can't get away from it.
I'm always gonna be this girl,
and you are always gonna be desperate.
- Please stop.
- Christ, you're so desperate,
you've ended up living
in your dead baby's room
and you're fucking grateful for it.
(traffic distantly rumbles)
(Joanne gasping)
(crowd chattering)
(crowd continues chattering)
- What's she doing?
(crowd continues chattering)
- [Clare] Come here.
- This is my mum's funeral,
and you're not invited.
I said you're not invited!
- It's all right. She's going.
- Good.
Good slags.
- Oh, put a sock in it for once, Gary.
- You shut your mouth.
- You fucking-
- Paula, look.
- She's going.
- There's a good dog.
Off you go. Off you pop.
(Gary imitates dog yapping)
- Disgrace!
- Paula!
(bottle clatters)
(gentle music)
(crowd shouting)
- I'm not fucking scared of you! Come on!
- You want some? You want some?
(Gary indistinctly shouting)
(table clanks)
I found my love
In the gas light glow
Dreamed a dream
By the old canal
(Paula and Gary indistinctly shouting)
Kissed a boy
By the factory wall
Dirty old town
(Paula and Gary indistinctly shouting)
- Come on! Stop your crying!
Stop your crying!
Dirty old town
I don't wanna look at you crying!
(Gary indistinctly babbles)
(Gary sobs)
Clouds are drifting
Across the moon
Cats are prowling
(Gary sobbing)
Along their beat
Spring's a girl
In the streets at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
- Do you want another beer? Here.
(Amy weakly giggles)
- Yeah.
- Here you go.
- Yeah.
- Big softy, hey?
Want a tissue?
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
I heard a siren
From the docks
Saw a train
Set the night on fire
Smelled the spring
Of a smokey wind
(Joanne sighs)
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
(curtains rustle)
(drawer creaks)
(drawer thumps)
(Helen sighs)
(machinery whirring)
- What the hell are you doing here?
- Apparently, the emotions
between two women are so intense,
it's like doggy time, as in years.
So that's...
That's nearly four months in doggy time,
so it's understandable
how you're feeling, Helen.
That and Gwen.
(Paula spits)
(mechanism clicks)
- Hey.
- It's okay.
- Come on.
- Oh.
You're all right. Come on.
Come on, Helen. You're all right.
- It's all right.
(birds chirping)
(door slams)
(Joanne sighs)
(drawer squeaks)
(drawer thumps)
(Joanne sighs)
(paper rustling)
(Joanne softly sighs)
- Now that Gwen has departed,
Gary and I need to build a
dutiful nest for baby Jacob-Rees.
- [Gary] That fucked-up
woman didn't want you.
- What?
- I could've told you that.
I used to hear her next
door, rattling on the bars,
saying, "Let me out!"
You should thank me
for getting rid of her,
'cause she would've fucked you up.
- What did you do?
- I just reminded her of what she was.
- What is wrong with you?
You've had the easiest path, Gary.
Look at you, choking in your
own anger and bitterness!
Why are you so fucking angry?
Why are you angry with me?
Be careful you don't get
worn down by this man.
(Helen scoffs)
- You never gave me what I wanted!
(baby crying)
- What are you on about, Gary?
(baby crying)
(gulls squawking)
(seatbelt thumping)
(car rumbling)
(machinery whirring)
- Three nights, she's been
gone, and not a bloody word.
- She's got a name!
What's mine, hey?
(workers murmuring)
- Where is she?
- We don't know.
- Go and bloody find her.
Go.
- [Manager] It's one of those mornings!
- [Haircutter] Get packing, girls.
- Just staying at home.
It's a beautiful day in the
northwest. Enjoy the sunshine.
(gentle music)
Well, I think
I'm going out of my head
Yes, I think I'm going out of my head
Over you
Over you
I want you to want me
I need you so badly
I can't think of anything but you
And I think I'm going out of my head
'Cause I can't explain
the tears that I've shed
Over you
Over you
I see you each morning
But you just walk past me
You don't even know that I exist
I'm going out of my head over you
Out of my head over you
Out of my head, day and night
Night and day and
night, wrong or right
I must think of a way
Into your heart
There's no reason why
My being shy should keep us apart
And I think I'm going out of my head
Yes, I think I'm going out of my head
Oh, out of my head
Over you
Out of my head
Over you
Out of my head
Day and night, night and day and night
Oh, come
Day and night
Night and day
(Helen screams)
- What the fuck are you doing?
- I'm not being funny,
but can someone grab that creepy doll?
- Yeah.
You're coming home with me.
I've got three kids who hate me,
so I could do with the support
I've got no doubt she
came back for you, Helen.
She just couldn't see it through.
- That doesn't mean you
needed rescuing, Helen.
- No. You just needed your flower eaten.
- Paula.
- Her flower?
- Gwen's bingo cards.
- House. Gwen's left you the house.
- Oh my God.
- [Group] Fucking bingo!
(group cheers)
- Yes!
- Oh my God, Helen!
- Oh my God, Helen.
(pylon buzzing)
- Tiring of the sleeping monsters, Jo?
- [Joanne] What?
- Normally, you (indistinct)
up those beasts.
Where's your bloody hat?
(pylon buzzing)
(Joanne panting)
(carabiner clicks)
(wind howling)
(pylon continues buzzing)
(birds cawing)
(wind intensely whooshing)
(Joanne yelps)
(wind howling)
(Joanne gasping)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(Joanne sighs)
(Joanne sighs)
(neighbors distantly chattering)
- What color are we having, Helen?
I like them all, apart from the green.
- You pick one, Amy.
- Thank you.
I quite like the burnt clay.
Sparkles, maybe.
(door slams)
- [Neighbor] I haven't seen
you for years, Barbara.
- [Barbara] Well, I haven't
been anywhere except for here.
- Are you sure?
- Have you seen that there?
- I dunno what's happening.
- Have we met before?
- What's happening?
- I have no idea.
- Maybe it was a storm.
(neighbors distantly chattering)
- What fence panel is yours, Barbara?
- Helen the House, everyone!
(crowd cheering)
- How many times have you put
that key in the door and gone,
"Shit, this is mine"?
- I reckon we've packed
over 10 million chickens
since we've been here.
That's 40 million dinners
on people's tables,
and I wonder if those 40
million people ever think of us.
- Have you really been counting
the chickens all this time?
- Because those 40 million people
are eating food from our hands,
hands that we used to wipe
our arse, play with ourselves.
That's why they make
us wear sodding gloves.
- [Clare] Paula.
(workers murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
- Hi.
(Joanne scoffs)
I wish I'd given you this a long time ago.
I had to knock a few
things down before I could.
I want to say so many things.
- I don't want it.
- Please look at it.
(Helen shakily sighs)
You've always been with me.
I didn't think that I
could love, but I can,
because I love you.
- I can't do this.
- We can be so much more
than what they think we are.
No. Helen.
- You were right.
It is too late.
- Helen.
Helen.
(machinery faintly whirring)
(button clicks)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
The words I have to say
May well be simple, but they're true
Until you give your love
There's nothing more that we can do
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
You say it's very hard
To leave behind the life we knew
(button clicks)
(chicken thumping)
(bag rustling)
(workers murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(Helen softly panting)
(keys jingling)
(bag rustling)
- Give that to Gary.
I know Gwen wouldn't mind.
- Yes!
(crowd cheering)
Come on!
(crowd continues cheering)
(Joanne chuckles)
(crowd continues cheering)
- So where do we go now?
Onto our happy ever after?
- We go onto the beginning.
(crowd continues cheering)
(crowd continues cheering)
(gate whirring)
Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
- [Paula] Yes!
Freedom, the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
(crowd continues cheering)
Have your eyes really seen
(crowd continues cheering)
(crowd continues cheering)
(vocalist humming)
(gentle music continues)
Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom, the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
(machinery whirring)
(workers murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(alarm blares)
(workers cheer)
(machinery whirs)
- [Worker] Ah, yes!
(workers faintly murmuring)
(workers chuckle)
(door slams)
(static buzzing)
(ominous music)
(switch clicks)
(no audio)
(no audio)
(no audio)
(no audio)
(no audio)
(no audio)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(birds chirping)
(crowd chattering)
(crowd continues indistinctly chattering)
(gentle music continues)
(dog distantly barking)
(tender music)
(tender music continues)
(tender music continues)
(wind softly howls)
(tender music continues)
Love is the key you must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom, the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
(television faintly chattering)
(gentle music)
(door clicks)
- What are you doing in here?
(baby coos)
- What are you doing that for?
I've seen it all before, you
know. You were my bloody wife.
- Can you ask your girlfriend
to turn the telly down?
It's not good for your mum.
(baby cries)
(television faintly chattering)
(bag rustles)
(television faintly chattering)
(case clicks)
(television faintly chattering)
- Should I get my lips done like her?
Plump, like juicy lips.
Oh, that's him, Gary.
- [Gary] He's a prick.
- Yeah, but he's a funny prick.
- [Gary] And you like funny pricks?
- [Amy] Yes. Why wouldn't you?
- [Gary] Ah, shit.
Would you like to be on this?
- [Amy] Eh, yeah?
It'd be a holiday, innit?
- [Gary] Yeah, but you'd have to cop off
with all those lads.
- Nah. You pretend.
It's a free holiday.
- [Gary] You'd be great in it.
- Get the money, Helen.
- [Gary] Here we go.
(Gwen coughs)
- I bet that one wouldn't wipe me arse.
- Would you want her to wipe your arse?
- No. I bloody wouldn't.
Probably can't even wipe her own.
Oh.
(Gwen coughs)
So, what did you wish for?
- The usual.
- You shouldn't stay
here just because of me.
(Gwen sighs)
(television chattering)
That's nice. You're good at this.
- When I was at the home,
I had a Girl's World doll.
- Oh, I bet she didn't
have collapsing lungs,
gray hair, and no teeth.
- She was the only thing
I loved to play with.
- I loved to play with
mine, once upon a time.
- I used to snog her.
- Oh, Christ.
(Gwen chuckles)
(Gwen coughs)
Who did you use to think about?
(Gwen coughs)
- I'd have to kill you if I told you.
- Sometimes, I wish you would kill me.
- I'd end up in prison.
- Yeah, well, we're both
already in one, love.
(wind howls)
(beach-goers laughing)
(gulls cawing)
(beach-goers indistinctly chattering)
- All you've done is moan
since we've got here!
You've got your face in that phone!
You think you're pissin' funny, you do.
Get in the fucking car!
- [Teenager] I'm going!
- What are you gawking at? Stupid cow.
(beach-goers chattering)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
LA's fine, the sun
shines most of the time
- I've never been there, and
I probably won't ever go.
The feeling is laid back
Palm trees grow and rents are low
But, you know, I keep thinking about
Making my way back
Well, I'm a Catholic girl
I'm New York City
born and raised
But, nowadays, I'm
lost between two shores
LA's fine
But it ain't home
New York's home
But it ain't mine no more
"I am," I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am," I cried
"I am," said I
And I am lost and I can't even say why
Leaving me lonely still
(gentle music continues)
(Helen sniffles)
Did you ever read about a frog
Who dreamed of being a king
And then became one
Well, except for the names
And a few other changes
If you talk about him
If you talk about me
The story's the same one
But I got an emptiness deep inside
And I've tried
But it won't let me go
And I'm not a man
And I'm not a woman
Who likes to swear
But I never cared for
the sound of being alone
"I am," I said
(car horns honking)
To no one there
(car horns honking)
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am," I cried
(coworkers chuckles)
"I am," said I
(coworkers chuckles)
And I am lost and I can't even say why
(coworkers chuckles)
"I am," I said
- [Coworker] Are you slacking?
"I am," I cried
I am
(door slams)
(factory machinery whirring)
(workers chattering)
(factory machinery continues whirring)
- I hate the night shift.
- Come on, Clare.
Eyes down on the line. Four
nights down, one to go!
(workers cheer)
- Hey.
(coworker chuckles)
- Jesus. Watch it.
(alarm blares)
- Yes!
Come on.
- Hats on!
2617, do not touch that bloody button!
- I've got a name!
(workers chattering)
- Go get us a drink, Paula.
- Why can't you go?
- 'Cause I've slept with
everyone standing there
and it's embarrassing.
(Paula laughs)
(phone rings)
- What's wrong?
I don't know, Gary.
Give him Calpol or something.
What? Have you checked his nappy?
Uh.
Did you give your mum a drink?
Look, I've gotta go.
- Here, your majesty.
- Did you know Joanne
Jones was coming back?
- [Clare] Her dad died.
- Why is she coming
back? She hated her dad.
Evil bastard.
- Nothing more pleasing
than ranting at a corpse.
I did it with me mum's. She was a cunt.
- Well, there's no corpse
for her to rant at.
He's already been buried.
- See you back inside.
- See you.
Hey, which one was your favorite?
- Oh, fuck off.
(Paula laughs)
(birds chirping)
(car door slams)
- Oh, hello.
- Oh, hello.
(birds continue chirping)
Fucking hell.
(door slams)
(Joanne deeply sighing)
(Joanne deeply breathing)
(record clacks)
(record whirring)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
I'm leaving by night
I'm leaving alone
I'm leaving you lie
When you waken, I'll be gone
I would not beg for me
As I would not beg for you
Though I'd like to be the
one to see you through
Every step you have taken
Disappears with the tide
You're torn up and shaken
With changing your mind
You haven't got the grace
To say you'll finally decide
And you haven't got the
strength to stay to fight
Those people who surround you
Only want to see you
weak enough to crawl
They'll lie for you, decide for you
And buy up all your
rights and all your wrongs
And they'll try to stop your singing
In the middle of your song
For they do not want you free
They will not make you strong
But only drag you down
In the hole they're coming from
They say you are foolish
for wanting the sun
They say you are selfish
for learning to run
They'll tell you that the darkness
Is a blessing in disguise
For you never have to notice
If you're sighted or you're blind
And they'll do their best
to keep you from the light
(uplifting music)
(Joanne gasping)
You're more than beginning
You're learning to fly
It feels like you're falling
But it passes in time
I hate to see a friend go
down in flames without a song
So I'm waiting by the doorway
But I will not linger long
I'm leaving by night
I'm leaving alone
I'm leaving you lie
When you waken, I'll be gone
I would not beg for me
As I could not beg for you
But I'd like to be the
one to see you through
(uplifting music continues)
(uplifting music continues)
(Joanne sighs)
(Gwen sighs)
(television distantly chattering)
(Gwen groans)
(Gwen sighs)
- I should take you to hospital.
- I'm not having strangers
feeding off my grand finale.
I've waited long enough for it,
so I'm not sharing it
with anyone except you.
(television distantly chattering)
- How are you not afraid of dying?
- You shouldn't be afraid of living.
Women like us, we're just a number.
We live by the clock,
spend every day serving
someone or something.
Tick, tock.
Tick, tock.
Before you know it, the lid's being shut.
What's biting your arse, love?
- Someone I used to know,
except I didn't know them
'cause I never spoke to them.
I'm embarrassed if I see
her, about me, my life.
- Hey. Hey.
- Hiya. Oh, me?
- I work at the chicken.
No, I don't have kids.
No, but me husband, he's had
a baby with someone else.
- And that's not your bloody fault,
so don't you ever go
blaming yourself for that.
- Anyway.
(Helen sighs)
- Last shift before the weekend, huh?
- Yep.
(TV chattering)
(machinery whirring)
(worker yawns)
- Hell hath no fury like a woman's-
- Flange.
I write sayings when
someone wants to fight me.
- How old are you?
- I practice in the mirror.
I've got enough fury in my
flange to cause an earthquake,
so don't fucking push it, love.
(alarm blares)
Ooh, yeah!
If you're not scared of me,
why are you shaking like a shitting dog?
(workers indistinctly
chattering over each other)
(Helen sighs)
- God, come here.
- Come here.
- Come here!
Look at you!
- Good to see you.
- It's good to see you!
- Come here!
(group laughs)
- [Paula] Oh my God!
- Let go! I can't breathe!
(group laughing)
- [Paula] Don't squash Joanne!
- You remember Helen
from the home, Joanne.
She was at school with us.
- Vaguely.
- [Paula] Listen to you.
You sound dead posh.
- Oh, shush.
- You do!
- Look at your car!
- Don't you touch my car.
- Oh, come on! You
should put me on the car!
Oh! Oh!
- [Clare] Oh my God!
Paula, stop it!
- Stop playing around!
- Do not get in. Don't
even think about it.
- Oh, I'm getting in. I'm getting in.
- [Joanne] No, you're not getting in.
Well, you're not having the keys.
(group shouting over each other)
- Shotgun!
- Nobody is getting in my car!
I've got the keys!
(group chuckles)
(Helen sniffles)
(Helen sighs)
(knocking on window)
(Helen gasps)
- Where did you scamper her off to?
What the hell's up with you?
- Do you remember me at school?
- Hey?
Christ, Helen.
I'm not being funny but I
was hardly fucking there.
Why don't you come out tonight?
We're all meeting up with Joanne.
- Yeah, all right. Thanks.
- Well, more for you.
We'll be at the Gasworks from seven!
It's that time of the month!
Payday, you knob head!
(TV chattering)
(dance music playing)
- I've been thinking.
(Amy laughs)
If I got rid of her,
then you and I take on
baby Jacob-Rees, yeah?
- What are you on about?
- You should be grateful you
got a home to go, you know?
A roof over your head.
If you're not happy with it,
then, you know, do something about it.
Find someone else.
- And how am I supposed to do that
when you're taking half my wages?
- Well, I can't work and
look after Mum, can I?
(paper rustles)
(Gwen coughs)
(sheet rustles)
(birds chirping)
(Joanne sighs)
(Gwen sighs)
- How's your friend?
- It's been 20 odd years.
I barely remember myself
from 20 odd years ago.
They're all off out tonight.
- Helen,
you get out there.
Make her remember you.
Tick, tock, love.
(crowd chattering)
- Come here!
(group laughs)
Jesus!
- Open your mouth and I'll move, love.
- Hey, swallow your cheek,
or I'll shove it down
your throat for you, love.
Hey! Shots, shots, shots,
shots, shots, shots, shots!
- To the woman with a girl in every port!
(group cheers)
- Ugh.
- Oh, God.
- I'd have a finger
party with you anytime.
- Oh, Paula.
How long you here, Joanne?
- The council's giving
me a couple of weeks
to clear the house.
- A lifetime of living
and you get a few weeks.
That's how they treat us humans.
- Oh, I wouldn't call you human, Paula.
(group chuckles)
- I can't believe you lot are still here.
- Oh, me kids' dads
are here, so I'm stuck.
- I got away. I only came
back 'cause me dad was ill.
- You only went to Liverpool.
You can bloody walk there for me.
- Chris, I've just realized
you two will be close.
Have you seen anyone?
- No, apart from that knob
Gary who still lives next door.
What woman married that prick?
(group snickers)
- [Clare] Oh, geez.
(thunder rumbles)
- [Joanne] Is there a
problem? What's wrong?
(rain pattering)
(gentle music)
- Helen, come on!
Listen to the rhythm
of the falling rain
(group laughing)
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go
and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
The only girl I care
about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know
That when she left that day
Along with her, she took my heart
(group laughing)
(gentle music continues)
Rain, won't you tell
her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to
set her heart aglow
Rain in her heart and let the
love we knew start to grow
Listen to the rhythm
of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go
and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
Oh, listen to the falling rain
Pitter patter, pitter patter
Oh, oh, oh
(traffic distantly rumbling)
- Would you like a chip?
I was embarrassed.
I didn't want him to know that
I stalked you as a teenager.
- Do they come with curry or gravy?
- Half and half, 'cause
I can never decide.
- So where are you living now?
- Next door to you and that Gary.
- I haven't been with him for years.
(motorcycle buzzes)
- What's with all these fences?
It's funny.
- What is?
- This is the first
time we've ever talked.
Enjoy your chips.
(keys jingle)
(lock clicks)
(dance music loudly thumping)
(door slams)
(traffic rumbling)
(birds chirping)
(knocking on door)
- Well, look at you.
- Hello, Gwen.
- [Gwen] Here.
- As promised, with 20 years' interest.
Gwen gave me the fare to
follow the yellow brick road.
- She's a friend of Dorothy.
- She knows.
- Dorothy?
- Oh, she's not as green
as she's cabbage-looking.
She used to snog a Girl's World doll.
- Gwen! Oh my God!
I'll leave you two to it.
(door clicks)
- So you're back.
You've been hiding away too long.
You're back to make sure he's gone?
- In a way.
- He had a horrible death.
Taking your last gasp, knowing
you're unloved and unliked.
What could be more horrible than that?
Are you all right in that house?
- He was never the house.
- No.
Not the house.
(machinery whirring)
- Fred the Flaker!
- Allen the Allotment!
- Beryl the Bar!
- [Coworkers] Stop!
- Who said Beryl the Bar already?
- Helen the Handmaid.
- People call me Helen the Handmaid?
- Go sort her out.
(workers chattering)
What is wrong with you?
(Helen sniffles)
(door squeaks)
- It's just a name.
- Does everyone know?
- No! Of course they don't.
- I thought I was Helen the Home.
Helen the Handmaid?
It's embarrassing.
- Not as embarrassing as Paula the Blower.
(Helen chuckles)
(toilet whooshes)
(Lynn laughs)
Wash your hands, Debs!
(Debs chuckles)
(gulls squawking)
- [Joanne] These were a lot
easier when I was young.
- Excuse me!
Snooping is against the law.
Weirdo.
- I've got something for you! Shit!
(stilts clatter)
- You okay?
- [Joanne] Yeah.
(chair creaks)
(birds chirping)
Here.
- Thanks.
So this is where you grew up?
- Homes are like people. Some are lovely.
Some are ugly. Some are just cruel.
What?
- You talk like, I don't know, a poem.
It's nice.
- You like?
- I always wanted one of those.
- So what was it like
growing up with nuns?
- You got a thing for nuns?
- No.
- Slow, cold, orderly.
Lots of Latin. That came in
useful at the chicken factory.
I don't know.
I spent most of my time
looking out the window.
I wasn't always there.
My nana brought me up
and then she died, so.
- Yeah, but were they nice to you?
- Sometimes.
But you do have a thing for nun?
- No, I don't.
(birds continue chirping)
Come here.
Sit.
Close your eyes. Keep 'em closed.
Closed.
(box thumps)
(Helen gasps)
(Joanne chuckles)
This girl was my best friend.
You wanna play?
Don't be silly. We're grown women.
(Joanne giggle)
- Gary!
Gary!
Gary!
- [Gary] What?
- Have you taken my make-up bag?
- You being fucking funny?
- Well, it kinda just
vaporized into thin air?
Ugh.
It was just here!
(Joanne and Helen chuckle)
What the shitting hell?
Gary!
(Joanne snickers)
Gary!
She's pure (indistinct).
- [Gary] What? I'm watching the telly!
(Joanne and Helen chuckle)
(machinery whirring)
- A brain game.
- I Spy.
- Bored.
- Bingo?
- How do you play bingo with no hands?
- Disabled people play bingo, Lynn.
- Memory games are good
for stimulating the brain.
- Okay. Memory games.
Helen, first man you had sex with.
- No.
- First man you thought
of having sex with.
- Leave her alone, Paula.
- Actually, Paula, it wasn't a man.
(Clare chuckles)
- What does she mean by that?
(alarm blaring)
- Helen!
- I'm melting! I'm fucking melting!
(group chuckles)
- Interesting. We were
just having a memory game.
- A trip down memory lane.
- Hmm. A trip?
(Clare chuckles)
- No way.
- Hey.
A long trip?
- A long, long trip.
- I'm up for it.
- You need a new line, Paula.
- It can't be long. I need to see to Gwen.
- Oh, live a little.
- [Lynn] Let me press it!
- [Clare] No!
- [Lynn] Oh, just let me press it!
- [Clare] No!
- [Lynn] Please let me press it, Clare!
Come on!
(upbeat music)
Let me have the boom!
- [Clare] Yeah!
Come on!
- Woo!
(group cheers)
- Be careful with that.
- We're not walking, are we?
- [Clare] Come on!
- I hate walking!
- Come here.
- Come on, Paula!
Here we go!
Destination outward bound
I turn to see the northern
lights behind the wing
- [Lynn] Woo!
Horizons seem to beckon me
Learned how to cry too
young, so now I live to sing
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
Horizons seem to beckon me
Learned how to cry too
young, so now I live to sing
- Rolling!
- Bloody hell, run!
(traffic honking)
(group cheers)
Past or future, here or there
Shelter comes in words
from you, so talk to me
(group laughs)
I hear your voice, it comforts me
In morning dreams, I take your hand
You walk with me
(group cheers)
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
Peace enfolds the still night air
Home again, I look for
you and find you there
Marking the space between the days
Early hours pass away
I sing to you of northern lights
I sing for you of northern nights
- I'm trying to hang me washing, love.
- Woo!
- Let's go!
(upbeat music continues)
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
The northern nights are in my eyes
They guide me back to you
- Oh, fuck me. That's
bigger than what I remember.
- You lying girl.
- Five women want to get to
the top. How hard can it be?
(upbeat music continues)
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
The northern lights are in my eyes
They guide me back to you
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
- I'm shaking.
- Don't worry. She's an expert.
The northern lights are in my mind
(birds chirping)
- These are gentle.
(Paula chuckles)
- Ooh.
- So what happens now?
(group snickers)
(Paula indistinctly mumbles)
(Paula coughs)
(group laughs)
- [Lynn] Oh, don't. She'll
have an asthma attack.
(group laughing)
- I've got three kids
with three different dads.
(laughter drowns out speaker)
(group laughing)
- I had, I...
(Lynn laughs)
I had mine when I was 17
and she's me best mate.
I am that woman.
(Lynn laughing)
what are you doing?
- I'm seeing chicken clouds.
(group laughs)
Stop! I'm gonna piss!
Stop!
(group laughs)
- I could live here
in a giant mushroom with net curtains.
(group laughs)
- If there's anyone up there,
can you get Helen the Home a busting home?
(group laughing)
I wonder what Google Earth is seeing.
(group laughs)
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
- Christ! I've got nothing in for tea!
(group laughs)
- A penny for them?
- Um.
Wash bedding, wash work
clothes, hang work clothes,
press repeat.
- You like her.
Well, you're not thinking of a man
when you snog your doll, now are you?
- She's a friend.
(Gwen chuckles)
- I wish I had a friend that
made my men sing like that.
(Gwen laughs)
(door clicks)
- Everything all right?
- Well, I'm dying.
- Is that supposed to be funny?
- I'm going to have a fanny scrub-down.
Do you want to watch?
- Hm. I'll shut the door then.
(door slams)
(Gwen sighs)
- Now, I'm just saying this.
If you are thinking about it,
don't let mine put you off.
(birds chirping)
- Are you snooping on me?
- [Joanne] Yeah.
(Helen chuckles)
- And there's like these like...
(car engine roaring drowns out speaker)
And then, like, as I get better,
I can do, like, semi-perms and that.
- Yeah, semi-perms.
- Are you coming or what?
Are you just gonna go off
in the street then, yeah?
So long.
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
- [Joanne] Why are you still here?
- [Helen] Where else would I have gone?
- Oh.
Oh, anywhere
- Gwen, when the home closed
down, took me in as a lodger
and I love her for it, so here I am.
- So that's when you met Gary?
- I was young.
- [Joanne] How young?
- 16.
- Oh, God.
You used to sit here for hours.
What were you dreaming about?
Well, I used to dream
of playing the piano.
I went to music class at school.
I watched this girl play and
she was pretty and confident,
so I asked the music teacher
if I could join the class.
Yeah.
He took ahold of my hands, looked at them,
and in front of everyone,
he told me that they were
too dirty to touch his piano,
so I hit him and smashed up
his music room and his piano.
- That was the last time I saw you,
you being dragged down the
corridor by the police.
- Yeah, and you smiled at me.
- I did.
I wish I'd said something.
- You did.
- Are they clean now?
You work on the pylons?
(Joanne chuckles)
- Uh, yeah, I do. I
check that they're safe.
Yeah, I like it. I get
to move around a lot.
- A girl in every port.
- Yeah. That's not what it sounds like.
- [Helen] What does it sound like?
- I'm just not a great believer in love.
- You must have believed
in it once upon a time.
(machinery whirring)
- What is it?
- I want to look nice.
Not nice. Different.
- Get your lips pulled.
- But you can't do that
'cause that's not different.
She wants different!
- All right. I'm only standing here.
(Clare whistles)
(Clare whistles)
(coworkers chattering)
- [Clare] You still cutting hair?
- You carry scissors?
- I'm Polish. I have to
be careful since Brexit.
Toilets in five.
- She wants Paris, not Poznan!
(Paula chuckles)
- Where's that?
- Have you ever been anywhere
apart from here and Liverpool?
- Glan Clwyd.
- That's a hospital. Poznan, Poland.
My new fella's from there.
(Paula grunts)
(Clare chuckles)
(Paula indistinctly murmurs)
- Stop it!
(workers indistinctly murmuring)
(stall door slams)
- Look straight on.
(scissors clacking)
(toilet whooshes)
(machinery whirring)
(coworkers indistinctly murmuring)
- I know who Helen thought
about having sex with.
I could do all the other
stuff, but I couldn't eat one.
Oh. Ugh.
- Paula!
- [Vocalist] I want a flower.
Not the flower you're thinking
of, but a good flower anyway.
- It's not like Helen
is overtly, you know.
She's a bit prude-y.
(gentle music)
Will somebody wear me to the fair
- I'm just saying, if she wants
it, she'll have to eat it.
Will a lady pin me in her hair
- I couldn't, and I can eat most things.
Will a child find me by a stream
Gaily laughing in the sunbeam shower
Kiss my petals, weave
me through a dream
For all of these simple
things and much more
A flower was born
It blooms to spread love and joy
Faith and hope to people forlorn
Inside every woman
Inside every man
Lives the seed of a flower
If she looks within
If he looks within
She finds beauty and power
He finds beauty and power
(Helen sighs)
(singer vocalizes)
(crowd cheers)
Ring all the bells, sing and
tell the people everywhere
That the flower has come
Light up the sky with your
prayers of gladness and rejoice
For the darkness is gone
Throw off your fears, let
your heart beat freely
At the sign that a new time is born
(crowd chattering)
(crowd cheers)
May mosaydee kaylie lowya roses
May mosaydee kaylie lowya roses
Say money ain't na, na, no, oh, na
(singer hums)
Looking for vayda tay breeze
Looking for vayda tay breeze
May mosaydee kaylie lowya roses
(singer hums)
For all of these simple
things and much more
A flower was born
- Stop it.
It blooms to spread love and joy
Faith and hope to people forlorn
Inside every man
Inside every woman
Lives the seed of a flower
If he looks within
If she looks within
He finds beauty and power
She finds beauty and power
- Eat me, Paula.
(crowd cheers)
- [Paula] Piss off!
- Eat me!
(dramatic music)
(crowd cheers)
Na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
- What the blinkin' hell are you lot
pissing about with these for?
People have gotta eat them, you know!
Get them all picked up and stop it!
(crowd laughing)
- No.
(weights clanging)
(trunk thumps)
- Gary.
You won't intimidate me
by standing in your garden
like a scarecrow on steroids.
- I'm a fucking time bomb, me!
A fucking time bomb!
(dog distantly barking)
(Gary grunting)
(birds chirping)
- Did you ever give her a name?
- No. She remains unnamed and free.
(birds continue chirping)
I don't believe in wishes.
- Taraxacum.
Their name in Latin.
- What does it mean?
- A remedy for disorder.
What is the remedy for disorder?
- Love.
- You're beautiful.
- I'm not.
- You are.
- You don't know me.
- Yes, I do.
- I'm terrified all the
time about everything.
- I know how it feels to be terrified.
(birds continue chirping)
(Joanne chuckles)
Really?
(Helen chuckling)
(baby coos)
- [Helen] Woo!
(Helen chuckling)
- Well, if we got
together when we were 15,
I think we could have made it.
- I would've wooed you.
- I would've wooed you back with a song.
- A song?
- Yeah. Yeah, I would've.
I would've played you a song
and we would've lived happily ever after.
- You don't do happy ever after.
I want you to woo me.
(Joanne chuckles)
What? You're a wooer, aren't you?
Do you want your teeth out?
- Leave them in.
Oh, it's nice.
- What is?
- The hair,
and hearing you having fun.
- Thank you
for being the mum I never had.
- Ah, no.
- I mean it.
I don't know what I'd
have done without you.
(Gwen sighs)
- Now, would you bugger off?
(footsteps thump)
(Gwen sighs)
(door slams)
(television indistinctly chattering)
- She's a fucking lesbian, her next door.
- No fucking way.
Why don't you cover his ears
so he doesn't hear all the
ignorant shit you two spew out?
- Well, actually, Helen,
being parents gives us
a natural in-stuition.
- [Helen] That's not even a word, Amy.
- Yeah, it fucking is!
It is a word, Gary.
- I know, babe. I know.
(door creaks)
(door slams)
(workers indistinctly murmuring)
(Clare sighs)
(Paula grunts)
- [Lynn] Paula!
(Paula giggles)
(Lynn softly chuckles)
- What is going on with those two?
- Oh.
(Paula snickers)
(car rumbles)
(wind whooshing)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gulls squawking)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(Helen chuckles)
(birds chirping)
- Still.
- [Helen] What?
- You.
(Helen laughs)
(Joanne chuckles)
(Joanne puffs)
Can I ask you a question?
- Yeah?
- Why no children?
- I couldn't carry past 12 weeks.
I tried four times and
then I stopped trying.
- How did Captain Caveman
let you get away with that?
- He didn't. He banished
me to the baby room.
(Helen gasps)
Move your foot, madame.
(Helen sighs)
- I wrote you a love letter once.
- Mhm?
- I spent ages on it.
Drawing hearts and flowers
and writing little poems.
Then he found it and he read it.
Tore it into tiny pieces.
Told me how disgusting I was.
All I could think about was
how I was gonna put the
letter back together.
(Helen gasps)
(Helen yelps)
(Helen chuckles)
The things I do to woo a woman.
(Helen chuckles)
- [Gwen] Have you done it?
- What?
- [Gwen] Go on.
- After all these years and
everything that's happened,
she's always sat in here
and I don't know why.
- Oh, yes, you do.
I think you do.
(machinery whirring)
- What is love?
- Korma curry, fried rice,
and a cuddle with me kids on the sofa
while watching shit telly.
- Real love is someone
who will, you know, do it
even if you haven't had a bath.
- [Clara] What are you on about?
- [Lynn] Cuddling.
- It's the moment the air feels different.
You can breathe.
You feel bigger than anyone or anything,
and you can take down
anything that gets in the way,
'cause you're one big
mass of fucking emotion.
(chicken splats)
Ugh.
- The beautiful Helen Davis,
you are requested to meet Joanne Jones
at the top of Lovers'
Lane at 11 this morning
so we can play.
(crowd cheers and whistles)
I can't believe I just
soddin' read that out.
(group laughs)
(Helen and Joanne giggling)
- Ready?
- Mhm.
(Helen gasps)
(wind howling)
(Helen and Joanne chuckle)
- Take the reins. Chuck chuck, baby.
(Helen sighs)
(Helen and Joanne laughing)
(cart clatters)
(Joanne cheers)
(birds chirping)
(Joanne cheers)
(tender music)
(tender music continues)
Walk in love
A sandy beach
We're barefoot
We walk in love
A time and place so sacred
Only lovers see
The magic we can be
- Why am I so nervous?
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
(Joanne chuckles)
Talking hands
We walk in silence
But we have talking hands
They speak of feelings
Like our words could never do
My love, I shine for you
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
Laugh to laugh
We take our clothes off
Moonlit to love
To love, to love, to love
We spread the blanket
Lie down, rising with the waves
And falling like a star
(Helen giggles)
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
We came, we saw, we fell in love
Two birds as one above
No need to conquer love
(workers chattering)
(machinery whirring)
(birds chirping)
(Helen giggles)
- Don't bother.
I have the face of death on me.
(bed squeaks)
And you,
you have the face of birth.
Don't you bloody dare.
Now, you know where me papers are.
There's an envelope with your name on it.
It's me bingo cards.
Oh, I'll still be playing
from the other side.
(Gwen coughs)
I've paid for a fast-track cremation.
I don't want to be pissing around
in some cold cubbyhole for two weeks.
(Gwen coughs)
- I don't want you to go.
(Helen sniffles)
- Do you remember the first
time you knocked at my door?
- Yeah.
- It took you 15 minutes
to find the courage,
but you knocked.
- I wish-
- No "I wish."
I wish.
Helen, stop wishing.
Tick, tock.
You're gonna be all right,
and me,
I'll be glad to see the back of myself.
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
- Can I please?
- Yeah. Take it.
- You know, first,
charity starts at home.
- Then what's your own?
- Ah. You know what I mean, love.
- Yeah. I'm not your love.
- You always were a mouthy little cow.
He should have kept you locked up.
(Gary snickers)
- What did you say?
- You heard me.
- What did you fucking say?
- [Neighbor] Mad bitch!
- Hey, hey.
I can still see you lying on
the floor, covered in piss.
(Gary laughs)
It cost me two cans of lager, that did.
Yeah, your dad would
do anything for a beer.
(Gary chuckles)
What was it he used to say about you?
It was worthless from birth.
Then your mum fucked off.
That's gotta be something, isn't it?
Yeah.
I wasn't the only one.
Nah, loads of us used
to go and look at you.
You were good entertainment.
- You are a prick.
- Now, look around you.
Well, look around.
Do you know what they're all thinking?
Shall I tell you?
We have fences to keep filth like you out.
You are dirty and you are fucking filth.
Yeah, that's better. Yeah.
Can't escape from what you
are around here. No way.
Go ahead and pack a bag, you know?
Nobody wants you!
(Joanne panting)
(dog distantly barking)
You're bring down the frickin' tone.
(Gary laughs)
(Joanne shouts)
- [Joanne] Fuck!
(juice splats)
(group laughs)
- Just a bit.
- Helen, you gotta get
yourself home, love.
Come on. Get yourself off home.
(machinery whirring)
- Gwen has passed to the other side,
though she still remains upstairs in body.
(door slams)
(bed softly creaks)
- Why didn't you wait for me?
(bed softly creaks)
- Can you wake her up please, Helen?
Wake her up.
(gentle music)
(bed rattles)
Mum?
(bed rattles)
Mum?
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(Helen sighs)
(birds chirping)
- See you in a minute.
(knocking on door)
(door creaks)
- [Paula] Just us.
(birds faintly chirping)
- You okay?
She's devastated.
Have you even seen her?
(clothes rustle)
You know, I wondered why you came back,
and I thought something
in your voice had changed
when I told you I worked with her.
(gentle music)
- I can't.
I can't do it,
in here.
- It's no life, Joanne, the way you live.
You're breaking your own bloody heart.
(Joanne scoffs)
(gentle music continues)
(Joanne sighs)
Come on.
Come.
(Joanne sighs)
(television indistinctly chattering)
- You should have been here,
not running around with her.
(spoon clatters)
(television continues chattering)
I saw her packing her car today.
Are you gonna go with her?
She asked you to.
(Helen sighs)
Well, my mum's dead now so you can go.
(birds chirping)
(footsteps thumps)
(dog distantly barks)
- I'm sorry about Gwen.
- Were you thinking of telling me
or were you just gonna leave?
- What do you want, Helen?
- I want you.
- Well, I have to go.
- [Helen] What?
(zipper rustles)
I can't breathe here.
- I don't understand.
Has something happened?
- Has something happened?
This has happened and this has happened!
This whole fucking place!
Look at the two of us.
We're fucked up. It's too late.
It's too late.
- Why are you saying that?
- Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot
you believe in things.
I'm a fuck-up, Helen.
I can't get away from it.
I'm always gonna be this girl,
and you are always gonna be desperate.
- Please stop.
- Christ, you're so desperate,
you've ended up living
in your dead baby's room
and you're fucking grateful for it.
(traffic distantly rumbles)
(Joanne gasping)
(crowd chattering)
(crowd continues chattering)
- What's she doing?
(crowd continues chattering)
- [Clare] Come here.
- This is my mum's funeral,
and you're not invited.
I said you're not invited!
- It's all right. She's going.
- Good.
Good slags.
- Oh, put a sock in it for once, Gary.
- You shut your mouth.
- You fucking-
- Paula, look.
- She's going.
- There's a good dog.
Off you go. Off you pop.
(Gary imitates dog yapping)
- Disgrace!
- Paula!
(bottle clatters)
(gentle music)
(crowd shouting)
- I'm not fucking scared of you! Come on!
- You want some? You want some?
(Gary indistinctly shouting)
(table clanks)
I found my love
In the gas light glow
Dreamed a dream
By the old canal
(Paula and Gary indistinctly shouting)
Kissed a boy
By the factory wall
Dirty old town
(Paula and Gary indistinctly shouting)
- Come on! Stop your crying!
Stop your crying!
Dirty old town
I don't wanna look at you crying!
(Gary indistinctly babbles)
(Gary sobs)
Clouds are drifting
Across the moon
Cats are prowling
(Gary sobbing)
Along their beat
Spring's a girl
In the streets at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
- Do you want another beer? Here.
(Amy weakly giggles)
- Yeah.
- Here you go.
- Yeah.
- Big softy, hey?
Want a tissue?
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
I heard a siren
From the docks
Saw a train
Set the night on fire
Smelled the spring
Of a smokey wind
(Joanne sighs)
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
(curtains rustle)
(drawer creaks)
(drawer thumps)
(Helen sighs)
(machinery whirring)
- What the hell are you doing here?
- Apparently, the emotions
between two women are so intense,
it's like doggy time, as in years.
So that's...
That's nearly four months in doggy time,
so it's understandable
how you're feeling, Helen.
That and Gwen.
(Paula spits)
(mechanism clicks)
- Hey.
- It's okay.
- Come on.
- Oh.
You're all right. Come on.
Come on, Helen. You're all right.
- It's all right.
(birds chirping)
(door slams)
(Joanne sighs)
(drawer squeaks)
(drawer thumps)
(Joanne sighs)
(paper rustling)
(Joanne softly sighs)
- Now that Gwen has departed,
Gary and I need to build a
dutiful nest for baby Jacob-Rees.
- [Gary] That fucked-up
woman didn't want you.
- What?
- I could've told you that.
I used to hear her next
door, rattling on the bars,
saying, "Let me out!"
You should thank me
for getting rid of her,
'cause she would've fucked you up.
- What did you do?
- I just reminded her of what she was.
- What is wrong with you?
You've had the easiest path, Gary.
Look at you, choking in your
own anger and bitterness!
Why are you so fucking angry?
Why are you angry with me?
Be careful you don't get
worn down by this man.
(Helen scoffs)
- You never gave me what I wanted!
(baby crying)
- What are you on about, Gary?
(baby crying)
(gulls squawking)
(seatbelt thumping)
(car rumbling)
(machinery whirring)
- Three nights, she's been
gone, and not a bloody word.
- She's got a name!
What's mine, hey?
(workers murmuring)
- Where is she?
- We don't know.
- Go and bloody find her.
Go.
- [Manager] It's one of those mornings!
- [Haircutter] Get packing, girls.
- Just staying at home.
It's a beautiful day in the
northwest. Enjoy the sunshine.
(gentle music)
Well, I think
I'm going out of my head
Yes, I think I'm going out of my head
Over you
Over you
I want you to want me
I need you so badly
I can't think of anything but you
And I think I'm going out of my head
'Cause I can't explain
the tears that I've shed
Over you
Over you
I see you each morning
But you just walk past me
You don't even know that I exist
I'm going out of my head over you
Out of my head over you
Out of my head, day and night
Night and day and
night, wrong or right
I must think of a way
Into your heart
There's no reason why
My being shy should keep us apart
And I think I'm going out of my head
Yes, I think I'm going out of my head
Oh, out of my head
Over you
Out of my head
Over you
Out of my head
Day and night, night and day and night
Oh, come
Day and night
Night and day
(Helen screams)
- What the fuck are you doing?
- I'm not being funny,
but can someone grab that creepy doll?
- Yeah.
You're coming home with me.
I've got three kids who hate me,
so I could do with the support
I've got no doubt she
came back for you, Helen.
She just couldn't see it through.
- That doesn't mean you
needed rescuing, Helen.
- No. You just needed your flower eaten.
- Paula.
- Her flower?
- Gwen's bingo cards.
- House. Gwen's left you the house.
- Oh my God.
- [Group] Fucking bingo!
(group cheers)
- Yes!
- Oh my God, Helen!
- Oh my God, Helen.
(pylon buzzing)
- Tiring of the sleeping monsters, Jo?
- [Joanne] What?
- Normally, you (indistinct)
up those beasts.
Where's your bloody hat?
(pylon buzzing)
(Joanne panting)
(carabiner clicks)
(wind howling)
(pylon continues buzzing)
(birds cawing)
(wind intensely whooshing)
(Joanne yelps)
(wind howling)
(Joanne gasping)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
(Joanne sighs)
(Joanne sighs)
(neighbors distantly chattering)
- What color are we having, Helen?
I like them all, apart from the green.
- You pick one, Amy.
- Thank you.
I quite like the burnt clay.
Sparkles, maybe.
(door slams)
- [Neighbor] I haven't seen
you for years, Barbara.
- [Barbara] Well, I haven't
been anywhere except for here.
- Are you sure?
- Have you seen that there?
- I dunno what's happening.
- Have we met before?
- What's happening?
- I have no idea.
- Maybe it was a storm.
(neighbors distantly chattering)
- What fence panel is yours, Barbara?
- Helen the House, everyone!
(crowd cheering)
- How many times have you put
that key in the door and gone,
"Shit, this is mine"?
- I reckon we've packed
over 10 million chickens
since we've been here.
That's 40 million dinners
on people's tables,
and I wonder if those 40
million people ever think of us.
- Have you really been counting
the chickens all this time?
- Because those 40 million people
are eating food from our hands,
hands that we used to wipe
our arse, play with ourselves.
That's why they make
us wear sodding gloves.
- [Clare] Paula.
(workers murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
- Hi.
(Joanne scoffs)
I wish I'd given you this a long time ago.
I had to knock a few
things down before I could.
I want to say so many things.
- I don't want it.
- Please look at it.
(Helen shakily sighs)
You've always been with me.
I didn't think that I
could love, but I can,
because I love you.
- I can't do this.
- We can be so much more
than what they think we are.
No. Helen.
- You were right.
It is too late.
- Helen.
Helen.
(machinery faintly whirring)
(button clicks)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(gentle music continues)
The words I have to say
May well be simple, but they're true
Until you give your love
There's nothing more that we can do
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
You say it's very hard
To leave behind the life we knew
(button clicks)
(chicken thumping)
(bag rustling)
(workers murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(Helen softly panting)
(keys jingling)
(bag rustling)
- Give that to Gary.
I know Gwen wouldn't mind.
- Yes!
(crowd cheering)
Come on!
(crowd continues cheering)
(Joanne chuckles)
(crowd continues cheering)
- So where do we go now?
Onto our happy ever after?
- We go onto the beginning.
(crowd continues cheering)
(crowd continues cheering)
(gate whirring)
Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
- [Paula] Yes!
Freedom, the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
(crowd continues cheering)
Have your eyes really seen
(crowd continues cheering)
(crowd continues cheering)
(vocalist humming)
(gentle music continues)
Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom, the lesson we must learn
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
Do you know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen
(machinery whirring)
(workers murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(workers continue murmuring)
(alarm blares)
(workers cheer)
(machinery whirs)
- [Worker] Ah, yes!
(workers faintly murmuring)
(workers chuckle)
(door slams)